OSOGBO—As striking workers and pensioners continue to
protest non-payment of salaries in Osun State, another civil
servant, simply identified as Tunde, yesterday collapsed and
died at government secretariat in Osogbo.
Tunde, who was a night watchman with Osun State
government was said to have died following his inability to
buy food and drugs due to non payment of his salary for
seven months.
The night watchman attached to the Auditor-general’s Office
was said to be on night duty when he collapsed and died at
his duty post.
Reports said that the man who hailed from Modakeke may
have died due to his failure to take his usual drugs for the
management of an undisclosed illness. The incident drew the
attention of staff of Auditor-General’s office where the man
worked but all efforts to rescue him proved abortive.
It took the effort of men of Nigeria Police Force and Civil Defence Corps to evacuate the
corpse with hundreds of sympathizers on hand. A similar case was also reported on Wednesday when a middle-aged man died owing to lack of money to purchase
drugs.
Speaking on the development, the Secretary of the Trade
Union Congress in Osun State, Mrs. Tola Nosegbe, urged well-
meaning Nigerians to join Christian Association of Nigeria and
churches in giving aids to workers in the state to save them
from untimely death.
Mrs. Nosegbe maintained that government had not been
transparent in its approach to the non-payment of workers
salaries, saying government should explain how it spent its
allocation from January this year to date.
Workers and pensioners in Osun State have not been paid in
the past seven months.
PDP seeks NEMA’s assistance
Meantime, the Osun state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has
said the plight of workers in the state required intervention by
the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA.
The PDP though commended the decision of the state chapter
of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, to donate food
stuffs to the state civil servants whose salaries have not been
paid for seven months, said the situation required National
and International Agencies attention.
Govt sensitive to welfare of workers – Aregbesola
But the Governor Rauf Aregbesola has said that his
administration remains sensitive to the welfare of Osun
workers.
Aregbesola described the present financial situation of state
that has made the state government unable to pay workers’
salary as disheartening and painful, saying however that no
one can suggest or establish a single instance of recklessness
on the part of his government.








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RIP to d dead man

Rip to the dead. But osun workers shouldn't complain, sebi they collected broom and rice to vote for aregbesola.

onatisi:
Rip to the dead. But osun workers shouldn't complain, sebi they collected broom and rice to vote for aregbesola.

Guess that's one mistake too many to make by the workers. I pray the National Assembly look into issues of States not viable enough to cater for themselves to merge with other States that can accommodate them provided there is a referendum for such. I pray God to intervene in that State.


Please check my signature too. Thanks.

These is what always happen in a state where the governor and his house of assembly belong to the same party.

Assuming Osun state house of assembly is shared equally among the parties, this will not be happening.

Should we call this mismanagement?

It is regrettably lugrubious!!

And they said the state's GDP is so big it dwarfs the ever buoyant SE economy. Meanwhile ordinary salary they can't pay. I think it's time for Igbos to once again come to the rescue. No matter how angry you might be at them for always betraying their brothers, but are we going to leave them to die of hunger? Please, to all Igbos even a Biafran Pound or Naira will be highly appreciated. Thanks y'all in advance.

biafransoul:
And they said the state's GDP is so big it dwarfs the ever buoyant SE economy. Meanwhile ordinary salary they can't pay.

na so o,

We were told the monthly IGR has been increased from 300million to 1.6billion naira and still increasing.

Tolexander:
na so o,

We were told the monthly IGR has been increased from 300million to 1.6billion naira and still increasing.

apc said it and you believed it,na wa for u oo ?

onatisi:
apc said it and you believed it,na wa for u oo ?

it is very possible the igr increased cos the Gov too tax us

Osun is a dead state without Niger-delta oil. We will soon know who and who are parasite in this country

Tolexander:
it is very possible the igr increased cos the Gov too tax us

ok. Me I no go argue, but how come osun state is in a dire state like this? The state govt is still collecting their monthly allocation,why can't he be paying up the salaries even bit by bit? I think the truth is aregbe has borrowed more than what osun state can cope with.

onatisi:
ok. Me I no go argue, but how come osun state is in a dire state like this? The state govt is still collecting their monthly allocation,why can't he be paying up the salaries even bit by bit? I think the truth is aregbe has borrowed more than what osun state can cope with.

that is the problem Aregbesola is having.

He has bitten than he could chew. He is servicing debt with the allocation and no project to show for the debt except the road projects which his company has hands in.

News like this make you wonder which is more worthless; the goat of a governor or the Zimbabwean dollars .

Tolexander:
that is the problem Aregbesola is having.

He has bitten than he could chew. He is servicing debt with the allocation and no project to show for the debt except the road projects which his company has hands in.

and unfortunately for him ,the fg too has serious problems , dwindling oil revenues means they fg too is facing cash crunch which means no fg bail out for now. If care isn't taken this situation will continue till december.